--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 236" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 236 published_at: "2015-06-12" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/236" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 236 This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/236) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 236 — June 12, 2015[Six Steps for Approaching the Next JavaScript](http://developer.telerik.com/featured/six-steps-for-approaching-the-next-javascript/) The final review of the ES6 spec is occurring this month, but if you’re not yet playing with ES6, how best to get started? Cody shares his 6 part approach for learning ES6 and beyond. Cody Lindley [Writing a Non-Blocking JavaScript Quicksort](http://www.breck-mckye.com/blog/2015/06/writing-a-non-blocking-javascript-quicksort/) Calling the native array sort function on a large data set with a complex expression can slow things down. Jimmy Breck-McKye looked into creating a more asynchronous solution. Jimmy Breck-McKye [ng-classy: Use Angular 1 and ES6+ Together with Ease](https://github.com/eaze/ng-classy) Use ES6 classes and ES6+ decorators with Angular 1 instead of modules. Check out the examples if you want to be convinced. Eaze [![Mailgun\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/aa8c8e7e.png)](http://blog.mailgun.com/mailgun-in-zap/?utm_source=JavaScriptWeeklyJun12=email=zapierblog)[Integrate email into your application with Mailgun + Zapier](http://blog.mailgun.com/mailgun-in-zap/?utm_source=JavaScriptWeeklyJun12=email=zapierblog)Want to integrate email into your application with a click of a button? Mailgun integrates nicely with Zapier. You don't have to setup any code to hook Mailgun up with over 400 apps including Wufoo, Firebase, Slack and Hipchat to name a few. 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